See All 12 Rows On Www.vmware.comDeploying a new OVA/OVF containing OVF properties that need to be configured is super easy using PowerCLI's Get-OvfConfiguration and Import-VApp cmdlets. Can you believe it? PowerCLI is closing in on a year of being in the PowerShell Gallery! We’re up to 20 different modules and, wait for it, over 2,000,000 downloads of those modules! As exciting as that is, there’s still quite a few questions on how to install PowerCLI to systems that do not have internet access. We’re going to take a much closer look at that with this post. Preparing the Offline System First things first, we need to uninstall any prior instance of PowerCLI that was installed by way of the MSI. This can be done by: • Open the Control Panel • Look beneath the ‘Programs’ section, select ‘Uninstall a Program’ • Select ‘VMware PowerCLI’, click ‘Uninstall’ One last thing to check, ensure there is no folder containing PowerCLI as part of the title in the following directory: C: Program Files (x86) VMware Infrastructure We can verify whether such a folder exists or not with a oneliner. Test-Path -LiteralPath 'C: Program Files (x86) VMware Infrastructure PowerCLI ' Accessing the PowerCLI Modules We’re now ready to download the PowerCLI modules. This task will require a system with internet access. This section has a couple of variables which depend on the version of PowerShell available on your online system and whether or not you’ve ever accessed the PowerShell Gallery previously by way of the PowerShellGet module. The easiest way to figure out which version of PowerShell you have is by using the PSVersionTable variable. Softkey labels unlimited update.
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